Dark Shadows : Resurrected - Encyclopedia

Josette's Music Box

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A small, ornately crafted French music box given to Josette DuPres in 1790 by her lover, Barnabas Collins. Josette had little time to enjoy it however, as she committed suicide soon after receiving the gift. 200 years later Barnabas Collins would give the music box to Victoria Winters, the reincarnation of Josette.

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Possession

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Possession is a concept of paranormal, supernatural and/or superstitious belief in which spirits, gods, daemons, demons, animas, or other disincarnate entities may take control of a human body, resulting in noticeable changes in behaviour.

The spirit of Angelique possesses Julia Hoffman when a Seance is held in an atempt to get Victoria Winters back from 1790. Maggie Evans performs an exorcism on Julia and drives Angelique out of her. She then takes up residence in Maggie.

Wicke, Phyllis

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A Governess in the 18th century. She had been employed, to rave reviews, by the Honorable Wilfred H. Cortney Esq. of Goshen, Coonnecticut. On her way to new employment at the Collinwood estate in 1790, her carriage is overturned and she is thrust forward in time just as Victoria Winters is thrust backward from 1991.

Ouija Board

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A game board (named from the French "Oui" and German "Ja", both meaning "Yes") used to receive messages from the dead.

Roger Collins and Maggie Evans bring one out to liven up a party. The questions and answers were as follows:
1) Roger asks if the state of Maine will secede and proclaim Collinsport the new capitol. ANSWER = NO
2) the Sheriff asks if the person who caused all the recent trouble in Collinsport is still around. ANSWER = YES
3) Sheriff asks if it is someone they know. ANSWER = YES
4) Sheriff asks what letter their name begins with. ANSWER = C
5) Sheriff asks if the "C" belongs to the killer's last name. ANSWER = YES
6) Roger then asks which letter does the first name begin with. At this point the game comes crashing to an end as Carolyn throws a tantrum and also throws the Ouija Board on the floor.

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Tea

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Julia Hoffman's drink of choice. She usually takes it plain with no milk, lemon or sugar - but on occasion it may be spiked with a little poison if Carolyn is serving.

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Daphne, The

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The moniker of Joe Haskell's fishing ship, named after his girlfriend Daphne Collins.

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Collinwood

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A mansion built in the late 18th century and home to the Collins family after they moved from The Old House.

Collinwood was first built on the moors near Lyme Regis, on the South West coast of England. It was then disassembled, shipped to Boston by boat and carried to Collinsport in oxcarts, where it was reassembled.

The floors are of Italian marble from Tuscany.
The ceiling beams and railings are of cherrywood carved in Germany.
The windows were obtained from the finest estates in Europe.

The house is exceedingly large and when asked how many rooms there are, Carolyn Stoddard doesn't know.

Presents

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The residents of Collinwood seem to have taken up gift-giving as a full time hobby.

Elizabeth Collins Stoddard gives Barnabas Collins a truckload of antiques when he moves into The Old House. Barnabas Collins gives his women the same music box, over and again. Julia Hoffman likes giving injections.

Little David Collins is the most focused and prolific of them all, tailoring specific items based on how much he likes you ( a Bo Jackson baseball card and his favorite "puree" marble goes to the ghost of Sarah Collins) or not (a shoebox containing a dead, bloodied rat and a cigar box housing a tarantula named "Hairy" are prepared especially for Victoria Winters).

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Spam and Chips

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The one meal Carolyn can prepare with confidence.

Auntie's Goodies

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The label Willie Loomis applies to his aunt's (Mrs. Johnson) cooking, including but not limited to;
- nut loaf
- blueberry hot-cakes with or without sausages
- cinnamon toast
- fried chicken and milk.

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Monster, The

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One of Julia Hoffman's pet names for Barnabas Collins, as in "At sunset I shall confront the Monster in his lair."

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Serology Experiment BC-1

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Title used by Dr. Julia Hoffman to describe her attempts to cure Barnabas Collins of vampirism.

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Big Maine Yutz

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A nickname endearingly given to Joe Haskell by Maggie Evans.

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Runic Symbols Of Satan

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When Victoria Winters travels back in time to the year 1790, Abigail Collins believes the care tag in Victoria's dress is part of a satanic spell:

machine wash
luke warm
tumble dry
cool iron

The zipper - "metallic stitchery" - is considered rather damning, as well.

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Winters, Victoria

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(1991) Victoria Winters (b. 1966) was an attractive young woman, raised an orphan in New York City. When Vicki was twenty-five years old, she accepted a teaching position as a personal governess to young David Collins. She boarded a train, and left New York for the fishing village of Collinsport, in the state of Maine.
Upon arriving at the great house of Collinwood, she immediately learned that David was an angry, troublesome young boy. He was extremely hostile towards Vicki and tried to scare her off by taunting her with various creatures such as dead rats and tarantulas. Shortly after arriving at Collinwood, she met Barnabas Collins and they began a tentative courtship.

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Collins, Millicent

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(1790) Millicent Collins (1772-1790) was an ancestor of the 1991 Collins Family having lived in the 18th century. Millicent was an heiress to a vast amount of estate in New York. She planned to vist her relatives out of the insistence of her cousin Joshua Collins. Millicent had not visited the family since she was twelve years old at a time when her cousin Joshua began pressuring his middle son Jeremiah Collins to woo and marry Millicent in a double ceremony with his eldest son Barnabas Collins and Josette Du'Pres. Millicent, however, was not to Jeremiah's liking as she was very vain and selfish. Her attitude was noted by nearly everyone when she first arrived. She even threatened to beat Collins servant Ben Loomis for not bringing in her mounds and mounds of luggage that she brought with her from New York.

Millicent's first night with her relatives seemed uneventful to her, and she complained much too often about the Collins estate. She was particularly disturbed about Jeremiah Collins’ attitude toward her, and believed he was trying to avoid her. Millicent, along with the rest of the family, was stunned when Jeremiah suddenly married Josette, Barnabas’ betrothèd; they were under a spell. Millicent broke into tears after finding out, and selfishly whined to the other family about her situation. Millicent's ways changed somewhat when Jeremiah died following complications from a duel wound. She nearly fainted when she saw his body.

Collins, Isaac

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(1790) Isaac Collins was a member of the prestigious Collins family of Collinsport in the territory of Maine in the 18th century. He lived at the ancestral family home known as Collinwood. A bust likeness of Isaac could be found on a desk in the foyer of the modern Collinwood in the year 1991.

Gloria

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(1991) Gloria (d. 1991) was a young woman who lived in Collinsport, Maine. One evening she went out with her boyfriend to a country western roadhouse bar. She became agitated when she found her boyfriend dancing with the lascivious Carolyn Stoddard. Distressed, she stormed out of the bar into the night. In the parking lot, she came upon an austere gentleman named, Barnabas Collins. Hoping to get back at her boyfriend, she began flirting with him. Little did she know however, that Barnabas was a vampire. He attacked her and began to drink her blood. Gloria's boyfriend came out of the bar and witnessed the spectacle. He ran across the parking lot to stop Barnabas, but the vampire attacked him as well. Both Gloria and her boyfriend's bodies were later discovered lying dead in the parking lot.

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Loomis, Ben

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(1790) Ben Loomis was a one-eyed coachman and servant to the Collins family in the latter half of the 18th century. When his employer, Barnabas Collins was transformed into a vampire by the evil witch, Angelique in 1790, Ben remained loyal to him.

Collins Stoddard, Elizabeth

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(1991) Elizabeth Collins Stoddard was the matriarch of the aristocratic Collins family of Collinsport, Maine. Although a woman of great pragmatism, she was passionately devoted to her family. She was a leading force in the family business, but conducted most of her day to day affairs from her home at Collinwood. Elizabeth shared the ancestral home with her brother, Roger, and his young son, David. She employed her niece, Daphne to work as the family accountant.

Loomis, Willie

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(1991) Willie Loomis was a rowdy, uneducated troublemaker who lived in the fishing village of Collinsport, Maine. His aunt, Sarah Johnson, worked as a housekeeper for the prestigious Collins family and convinced Roger Collins to give Willie a job working as a stable hand.

Willie hated working for Roger, and spent most of his free time sitting in his room at Collinwood drinking himself into a stupor. One day, he was scouring through a pile of old books when he came upon a mysterious doggerel alluding to the location of a cache of riches commonly referred to as the "Collins family jewels". Willie deciphered a portion of the riddle and concluded that the jewels were hidden away inside of a secret room in the family mausoleum. This discovery would lead him into meeting Barnabas Collins and his life would be changed forever.

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Collins, Daphne

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(1991) Daphne Collins (1963-1990) was a cousin to the fabled Collins family of Collinsport, Maine. She lived at the great house of Collinwood and worked as an accountant to Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. She also provided services for other residents in the port community including tavern owner, Sam Evans.
Daphne was romantically involved with a longshoreman named Joe Haskell.

Although Daphne was committed to Joe, she realized that maintaining a relationship with a man who worked such disagreeable hours would be a difficult one.
In the winter of 1990, Daphne was walking home from the Blue Whale when a mysterious stranger attacked her in her car. Although she didn’t realize it at the time, this stranger was her own vampire ancestor, Barnabas Collins. Barnabas drank a large portion of Daphne’s blood and left her for dead.
Sam Evans and his daughter, Maggie, discovered Daphne's body and called the police. She was immediately taken to the hospital where she was given a blood transfusion. The police had no indication of who the attacker might be, and Elizabeth Collins Stoddard insisted that Daphne be moved to Collinwood where private physicians could attend to her needs.
Dr. Hiram Fischer called in a blood specialist from New York named Dr. Julia Hoffman. Hoffman set up a small office at Collinwood where she worked alongside an old colleague of her named Professor Michael Woodard. Woodard had already spoken with the town sheriff, George Patterson, and had developed his own theory as to the nature of Daphne's condition. He boldly told Julia that he believed Daphne was the victim of a vampire. Julia was skeptical at first, but respected Michael enough to not arbitrarily dismiss his opinions.
As the days passed, Daphne's condition improved. However, she had no clear memory of the attack and could not successfully identify her attacker. Michael Woodard provided Daphne with a crucifix necklace and asked her to wear it. He didn't explain his motivations to her, but Daphne humored him, believing Woodard to merely be an aloof old man with a fondness for religious traditions.
One evening, Barnabas Collins stood outside the windows of Collinwood and used his vampiric powers of hypnosis to call out to Daphne. Daphne rose from her bed and began descending the staircase at Collinwood, but the presence of the crucifix kept Barnabas from effectively attacking her. Joe and the others found her downstairs and brought her back to her room. Elizabeth decided that she should be relocated to first floor quarters should she begin sleepwalking again. None of the residents at Collinwood had any idea how close to death Daphne had come.
Sheriff Patterson grew concerned that whomever attacked Daphne might attempt to do so again – especially if the possibility existed that she could correctly identify him. He assigned a deputy to stay at Collinwood to watch over her. Joe Haskell and the deputy agreed to keep a nightly vigil over Daphne while she slept – to insure that she did not begin sleepwalking again.
On one of the nights in question however, both Haskell and the deputy fell asleep at their post. Barnabas appeared outside of Collinwood and beckoned Daphne to him. She removed the cross from her neck and ventured outside. Barnabas took the young woman into his embrace and completely drained her of blood, killing her. The following morning, Joe Haskell and the deputy found Daphne's body near Widows' Hill.
Funeral services were held at Eagle Hill Cemetery and Daphne was buried inside of the Collins Family mausoleum. The night of her funeral, Daphne rose from the grave as a vampire. She stalked off towards the old family swimming pool where she found her young cousin, David, playing. She tried to attack David, but the small boy managed to evade her grasp and ran back to the main house. He burst into the dining room claiming to have just seen Daphne. Naturally, no one believed him – no one except for Dr. Woodard. Woodard’s suspicions were now confirmed and he was convinced that Daphne was not only killed by a vampire, but now walked as one of the living dead as well. He brazenly presented his theory to the household who treated him with mock scorn. Their shock towards Woodard's assertions only intensified when he suggested that they exhume Daphne's remains to certify whether or not she truly was a vampire.
Later that night, Joe Haskell wandered down to the mausoleum to visit Daphne's tomb on his own. Daphne appeared from the shadows and attacked him. He managed to stumble back to Collinwood, and the family took him inside and placed him in the care of Dr. Hoffman. After analyzing Haskell’s neck wounds, the family became less leery of Woodard’s bizarre theories. He presented his ideas to George Patterson and warned his deputies that Daphne was now a vampire. The sheriff and his men inspected her tomb at the mausoleum and found it empty.
A few nights later, Daphne struck again. She summoned Joe to her side and the two met in the upstairs quarters of the Collins family stables. Upon discovering that Joe was missing, Sheriff Patterson sent out a search party. They tracked the vampire down, and cornered her inside the stables. The deputies held Daphne down, while Dr. Woodard hammered a wooden stake into her heart, destroying her once and for all.

Collins, Barnabas

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(1790, 1991) Barnabas Collins (b. 1747) was a European aristocrat and an esteemed member of the prestigious Collins family from the 18th century.

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